HIV/AIDS has been big news this year, with forty-million are infected and 25-million already dead globally, deservingly so. Often untold are the stories of orphans, now estimated at above fourteen-million. Working To Empower is assisting such orphans so that they can attend school. Currently 153 students are in the program and many are in need of a sponsor. Three countries are involved within this project and the sponsorship differs in each location:

1. DR Congo – Forty-eight orphans aged six to eighteen are looking to enter either primary or secondary for $30 per year, including a uniform.
2. Tanzania – Fifty refugee orphans are looking to attend secondary, primary being free, for a cost of $10 per year, uniforms provided by World Vision.
3. Northern Uganda – Five orphans living in IDP camps would like to attend a secondary boarding school as there is no secondary school within their camp. The fee includes housing and food and is $240 per year.
4. Kampala, Uganda – Fifty children aged 3-11, vulnerable and/or orphaned, are looking to enter primary school as the feeless system begins to collapse. The cost is $30 per year, families are responsible supply uniforms.

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